Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas
Think (what will we do)
A course by Catalina Bu , Illustrator
About the video: Think (what will we do)
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to go through your sketchbook to find what will close out your final project. You will learn how to choose a concept. I will talk to you about how important it is that your project has a line and a concept.”
In this video lesson Catalina Bu addresses the topic: Think (what will we do), which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas. Learn how to create detailed illustrations by experimenting and revealing your ideas.
Partial transcription of the video
“Thinking About What We’ll Do Here I’ll teach you how to think of an illustration and then create it from concept to image, inspired by the sketchbook we created. Basically how we worked on the project was starting with the big picture, which was our whole process and how we focused on observation, on the creation of our sketchbook, and now we will narrow our focus, which is our final illustration. Basically it's a synthesis of everything we did. If I had to exemplify it with a drawing, I like to see this project as an iceberg where our final illustration is the tip of the iceberg and our en...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook

Catalina Bu
A course by Catalina Bu
Catalina Bustos Mendoza, better known on social media as Catalina Bu, is a Chilean illustrator who is passionate about drawing and uses simple strokes to express big ideas and tell complex stories. She currently works as an illustrator for numerous publishers, brands and companies.
She has written four books (Diario de un Solo 1 and 2, Libro Libre and En Blanco) and co-authored another three (Gatos Gordos, Solo Necesito un perro and Un espacio vacío); her books have been translated to French and Portuguese. Her work also has been featured in individual and collective exhibits in Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Mexico City, Shanghai, New York and Bologna.
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